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Jun 23, 2026 12:22 PM
bexxMaker
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Tardis1217
Almost like what someone who was installed to destabilize the West would do...
thewiggins
psmith00
the Trump Administration cannot govern because it is not an Administration. IT IS A REGIME. it does not administer. it controls. it rules via chaos and brutality. it's only real drive is for its Executive to consolidate more power from the other branches and levels of government until it has complete control. the question becomes why the Congress, House and Senate, even the Republican parts, allow this to continue. their submission just creates the situation where they will no longer exist.
cytherians
The screw worm is Trump.
He is screwing America in every way imaginable.
Iblamemyparentstoo
Check his pockets on the way out the door!
TheVampireDante
They can't govern, and never planned to. All they wanted was the power to do/take/destroy what they wanted and fuck over everyone else.
weidermeijer
ANOTHER Musk fuckup.
fivefrozenfishfingers
DOGE was a hell of a racket
somebackup
This is fiscal conservatism at its finest.
bemibet
They're the same picture.
Skuggen
It makes more sense if you assume the _real_ cost is $500M, and they're going to pocket the difference.
MisterRichard
Since it will now be done with maximum graft and cronyism, it's going to cost 20-30 times that even, and that's before we get the privilege of litigating for years through corrupt courts for the privilege of trying to do it correctly. Again. In another administration.
EroticZombiePants
I'm under the assumption the $1 billion requested is already a massive grift, and we might see like $100 million actually go towards combating them if we are lucky.
HolyFreakingToast
GOP FAIL. vote them out
KuldFyt
Somehow the screwworms turn green and start growing faster.
TheVampireDante
Someone send him a photo of a screwworm in a tan suit, that'll get him taking it seriously.
gonzar09
And when it gets approved, about 99.9% of its funding will go to some no-bid contractor who already is heavily invested in right-wing ventures who will spend less than 1% of it actually doing the job while reporting using all of it and then needing more because the job was harder than anticipated.
bxwf5rfbvt2718
How r u going to put a man with a worm in his brain in charge of shit and not think he’s going to unleash a worm border attack eventually?!?
itmfa666
This pisses me off that this ends with “Government efficiency”. This has nothing to do with efficient government. This is incompetent leadership.
RooGryphon
This isn't news. We already know trump and everyone in the regime can not govern. The cancer only cares about itself and money
LifeIsADanceOfMinds
#1 "Corporate wants to know..."
...."They are the same picture"
lenial
Multiple times better than other republican presidents (in bankrupting a country).
samanthadlcruz
but just remember how much he saved us by eliminating the pandemic response team during his first term!!! #thatssome5Dchessrightthere
paeches
and then how much after the $1b goes to companies that are getting overpaid to do a shit job? see peeling pool paint.
yikesaroni
im going to guess its another no-bid contract to a sleazy guy he knows
HenryLongfellowIII
Rampant Screwworm Services of Florida?
SalmonTheWise
He has a worm guy perfect for the job.
hogeyegrex
I think Stephen Miller is busy.
guyanesebro420
Who's your worm guy - Creed
bambinod
so much winning!
WhatInTheSamhillisaPuma
Why does everything cost 1 billion... so tired of this.
carsonburke2242
hot
notsurewhattocallthis
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure....
fformulaa
I am strangely hungry for pound cake now
DrNicholasRivierA
There is way more money to be made in fixing a problem than in preventing it. Like the $2 million reflecting pond budget that suddenly became $16 million, I bet if the books were opened for that contractor you would see millions gone missing or donated to trump causes.
michiyl
That's the thing with prevention - some people will only see "it doesn't do anything, why are we wasting money?", and will be super silent once the preventable thing comes down hard
Z0op
Basically me at IT support
RatsLiveOnNoEvilStar
Y2K is a great example of this. All the people that talk about how it was a dud and not really an issue completly ignoring the decade of effort from the entire industry to make that the case.
Z0op
Or the ozon layer
DrSparken
Oh don't worry about that one all the billionaires are making sure that goes away again thanks to all their megaconstellations
KawhiLeonardIsSenpai
Americans are too short-term in their thinking. They would rather pay nothing today and pay ten times the amount in the future as opposed to paying twice as much today to avoid paying ten times the amount in the future.
michiyl
Humans in general are bad at long-term planning and prevention, but some people love to ruin it just to feel superior
nosadpandas
That’s not an “American” thing. That’s a Trump thing. Most of us are on the prevention train, and pay arm and leg over getting sick/out of shape/unhealthy. To a fault.
KawhiLeonardIsSenpai
At least 77 million Americans voted for Trump. And close to 90 million Americans chose not to vote because they thought things under Kamala Harris wouldn't be much different from things under Trump. That is close to half the American population who didn't see anything dangerous with Trump's short-sighted thinking.
Sebastopol140
Right picture : a parasite. Left : also a parasite.
thewiggins
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Isn't Trump a screwworm
cowgoesmoo1
For the first couple seconds, I thought that was the joke. And then I kept reading. Looks like the joke is on us.
Exdeath5000
The program was dedicated to monitoring and containing the New World screwworm in Central America. The cuts dissolved the monitoring stations that acted as a biological buffer zone, which previously kept the parasitic flies contained south of the border. Shortly after these budget reductions and staff cuts to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, flesh-eating screwworms returned to Texas and New Mexico. $1 billion requested to fight the screwworms is equal to 67 years of preventing them
RCMY
South of the border you say... I wonder how many people will say a Wall would have kept them out
amglasgow
It's already happening
RatsLiveOnNoEvilStar
something about an ounce of prevention.
EroticZombiePants
Don't worry. They are only going to use a tiny fraction of that money to actually combat them.
Illithidbane
Probably just make it much worse, pocket most of the cash, blameshift, and leave us with an infestation that can never be truly contained.
hogeyegrex
Screwworm used to be fairly common here. A very successful government program eradicated them from the country. We’re absolutely capable of getting rid of them again. Just not with this miserably corrupt administration. It probably wouldn’t cost 100 mil to do right now. Ninety percent of that billion is grift. Any excuse with these parasites, and I don’t mean the worms.
Fyreworx
This is a direct example of how soft power works. You use your money to help other people with things that lead to good outcome for yourself as well.
SavageDrums
Help other people? What are you, some kinda commie?